chemo

Happy New Year

January 1, 2011

Here it is Saturday, The first day of a new year, and really I cannot help but think it is my last one. It doesn’t help that I am still sick from chemo, and I spent last night alone in bed being sick, Rett went out with her friend to see a movie, there was [...]

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Sorry, Chemo is Kicking My Ass

December 30, 2010

I am sorry I have not been able to update you guys sooner, but when I had chemo Tuesday, I woke up the next day so sick and so nauseated that I could not function. I tried all the meds they gave me to no avail, and spent all day in bed miserable, popping the [...]

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The Day After

December 26, 2010

Well yesterday was the big day, Christmas 2010, who knows maybe my last one. It was a good day; I actually had an appetite and ate a lot which surprised Loretta as well as me too. I visited the family for a while and had a good time and when we left there I took [...]

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A Brief Update and Possibly a Nap

December 7, 2010

Sorry I haven’t written in a few days, but to be honest while parts of me feel much better I just do not have the energy to do much of anything. I have spent the last few days in bed, my mouth so bone dry it is ridiculous and of I get enough energy to [...]

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Insomnia and Chemo Day

November 19, 2010

So I guess insomnia has it benefits, I can write this now and sleep a little later this morning before all my dr’s appointments ha-ha. Today is the big day I find out if the radiation actually did anything other than make me sick and destroy my sense of taste to the point that eating [...]

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3rd Round of Chemo and the DR

November 5, 2010

Yesterday was my 3rd “official” chemo of Gemstar, It turned into a full day affair, First thing, as expected finance was waiting for me behind the front desk and I told them I would pay my co-pay but had not pulled the records yet to have them pay all the fees associated to their fiasco [...]

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WOW! Chemo is Poison, it Kills Everything!

October 3, 2010

Two days after the surgery, at 9:00 AM in the morning I was back at the oncologist office for a post mastectomy treatment regime. I met with the head nurse and was scheduled for my very first chemo at 2:00 PM that afternoon. Things were moving really fast. The speed at which everyone was moving [...]

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